Let us examine new data about the integrated MCP78 chipset with directX 10 support . It was considered that those motherboard will be released in the second quarter of the present year, but now NVIDIA is assembled to release them in the third block. Their announcement is planned on October 2007.
This chipset will present the first integrated gpu motherboard with directX 10 support . The video Core used will have a limited graphic abilities . It will support the interfaces RGB, DVI, DP and HDMI (with HDCP). The technology pureVideo HD will ensure the hardware acceleration of digital content from blu-ray and HD DVD. Like all NVIDIA chipsets for socket AM2+ platform , this chipset will support hyperTransport 3.0 and PCI express 2.0.
Six ports SATA-300 can unite hard disks in massifs RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 and 5. One slot PCI express x16 and three slots PCI express x1. Gigabit net port and even twelve ports USB 2.0 will supplement the list of functional possibilities in MCP78 chipset .
The first engineering models will appear during June, the second revision will be released during September. Mass production will start during October in the present year.